KOLKATA: Several top city schools like St James and Pratt Memorial, which are private unaided minority institutions, will not implement the no-detention policy for students up to Class VIII that is mandatory under the RTE Act. The Supreme Court had earlier exempted these institutions from the purview of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009. Although state education minister Bratya Basu had insisted at a recent meeting with principals that all schools would have to follow the RTE directives, Vikram Sahay, director, RTE, in the Union HRD ministry, clarified in the city that private unaided minority schools were indeed out of the RTE ambit.